An in-depth analysis of the M2M market, focusing on cellular technologies and RFID in Western Europe and the United States, along with analysis of the leading players strategies and developments taking place on the major vertical markets
- Thriving technological landscape enabling a new rise for M2M
- Development of wireless technologies (cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee...) at affordable costs
- Better adapted connection modes and open standards (SMS, GPRS, TCP/IP...)
- Deployment of RFID, new source of M2M data
- Innovations in capture technologies
- Real market potential for IT players
- Vast array of machines to equip with communication capabilities in all sectors of activity (medical, retail, transport, automotive...), with wide-ranging application (telepayment, telemetry, tracking, video surveillance....)
- Recent involvement of leading players (mobile and wireline carriers, hardware manufacturers, software publishers, integrators and software houses, distributors, as well as machine manufacturers)
- Emergence of specialists at all levels along the value chain (MVNOs, software infrastructure, solution providers...)
- Vertical industries adopting more and more M2M solutions, aware of the potential benefits for their operations
- Favourable impetus provided by RFID mandates
- A host of regulations and public policies (security, health, traceability...)
- Concrete business cases successfully implemented with tangible benefits
- Reduction of operating costs through real time management of company resources: promising return on investment
- Extension of the after-sales service market based on preventative maintenance
- Designing innovative services and new rate models
Players
- BT
- Comtech
- IBM
- Nphase
- NTT DoCoMo
- Orange
- SensorLogic
- Siemens
- Sony-Ericsson
- TIM
- T-Mobile
- Vodafone
- Wavecom
- Wyless
- ...
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